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The time came in November, and Li Yuanhang spent huge sums of money to purchase two sets of top-notch motion capture equipment in the world, as well as related software and staff and ready.

The first motion capture studio under Shinhwa Network was officially established. Li Yuanhang was named Zhurong Studio.

The person in charge of Zhu Rong's studio is named Chen Ming. It is the talent that Li Yuanhang asked a headhunting company to hire. He has been in the motion capture industry for more than ten years. He has experience from crude and primitive equipment to the current sophisticated equipment. , Can be described as a real veteran.

Chen Ming is thirty-nine years old this year. He wore a neat suit to greet the two bosses Li Yuanhang and Xu Lezhu, as well as the heads of several other studios of Shinhwa Network.

When Chen Ming saw Li Yuanhang and others coming over, he took two steps forward and said, "Mr. Li and Mr. Xu, welcome to Zhurong Studio for inspection."

Li Yuanhang and Chen Ming shook hands: "Brother Dong, you are an expert in motion capture. Those of us don't know anything, just come over and take a look."

Xu Lezhu went on to say: "Mr. Li doesn't understand, I don't even understand. Just come over and watch the excitement, you can talk for yourself, and I can just take a look."

Li Yuanhang pointed to Yang Yuanhe and other people behind him and said: "Brother Dong, let me introduce you. This is Yang Yuanhe, the producer of Qinglong Studio, this is Wang Kai, the producer of Suzaku Studio, and this is Xuanwu Studio. The producer of Zhang Yunhai. I won’t introduce more about Dongge. The person in charge of our Zhurong studio has been in the motion capture industry for many years."

Chen Ming immediately smiled and shook hands with Yang Yuanhe, and said with a smile: "Mr. Yang, Mr. Wang, Mr. Zhang, you can support our work a lot in the future."

Yang Yuanhe smiled and said, "Everyone is a colleague, and mutual support is necessary."

After some greetings, Chen Ming led everyone into Zhurong's studio.

Zhu Rong Studio is located in the Minyang Software Park, but it is not the same building as Shinhwa Network. It occupies more than 500 square meters. It is divided into two workshops, namely the room for motion capture, and a computer room. , An office area of ​​tens of square meters.

Zhu Rong's studio now has 18 staff members, and there are more than a dozen signed motion capture actors, basically half of them are male and female.

Some of these staff and motion capture actors are debugging equipment, and some are trying to wear motion capture clothing. These clothing look like black leather clothes with some light spots on the clothes.

Chen Ming introduced: "We currently have 18 staff in Zhurong Studio, and 8 motion capture actors who have signed long-term contracts. In addition, there are seven motion capture actors who have only signed two-year short contracts."

"The equipment you saw, Mr. Li, was purchased from Xsens. It is currently the best performing equipment in the world. This equipment is composed of a set of optical motion capture equipment and inertial navigation motion capture equipment, which can handle the vast majority of In most scenes, especially this set of optical motion capture equipment, as long as you add Marker points to your face, you can capture facial expressions and restore most of the facial expressions."

Li Yuanhang asked with interest: "Brother Dong, can you show us the effect of this set of equipment?"

"Of course," Chen Ming turned his head and said to a guy who happened to be wearing a motion capture suit: "Xiaojin, put on a helmet, and you can demonstrate the effect of this equipment."

The young man agreed. He picked up a black helmet from the shelf and put it on. With the help of his partner, he put small light spots on his face that looked like a squid sucker. It's best to bounce around for a few times. Chen Ming said, "I'm ready."

Chen Ming turned around and asked the staff who was debugging the equipment: "Can we start?"

The employee said without looking up: "The data acquisition equipment and data transmission equipment are in place, and the data analysis equipment can analyze the transmitted data at any time."

Chen Ming nodded in satisfaction and shouted: "Xiao Jin, let's start."

Turning his head and looking at Li Yuanhang and others who were very interested, he pointed to the screen in front of him and said: "Mr. Li, Xiaojin's movement data will be sent to this workstation through the data transmission device, and the exclusive data analysis software in the workstation will be Real-time presentation of Xiaojin's movement data, please see."

The screen is a very complicated software interface, only the middle part is white.

At this moment, a human body model composed of multiple polygons appeared in the software interface, but this model was not motionless, but was sitting with some simple movements. These movements looked very smooth, without any signs of stuck. The feeling of pause.

Li Yuanhang looked in the direction of Xiaojin, and saw Xiaojin alone doing a simple warm-up exercise, which was exactly the same as the model on the screen, or the model's movements were almost synchronized with Xiaojin's movements.

Yang Yuanhe and others still know motion capture more or less, even if they haven't seen it with their own eyes, they probably know what it is all about.

Xu Lezhu was different. She had no previous experience in a game company, and it was the first time she saw a motion capture scene, which made her surprised.

After finishing the warm-up exercise, Xiao Jin quickly began to try some more difficult movements, and later tried many expressions. The movements of the model on the screen can basically be synchronized in real time.

It really makes sense to buy the best equipment.

After Xiaojin's performance, Chen Ming said with a smile: "Mr. Li, Mr. Xu, you can also experience being a motion capture actor for yourself."

Everyone's eyes immediately focused on Li Yuanhang.

Li Yuanhang shrugged, "Well, let me try."

With the help of professional motion capture actors, Li Yuanhang put on the motion capture suit and began to try the basic movements of walking and jumping.

Later, I just came directly to the computer screen and barely, while doing various actions, while watching the real-time actions completed by the model in the screen, it felt very interesting.

After changing into the motion capture suit, Yang Yuanhe couldn't wait to ask: "Mr. Chen, when can this motion capture be used?"

Most of the production progress and completion of "Benghuai Academy" is now only the shortcoming of motion capture. Once the motion capture is completed, the content of "Benghuai Academy" can be basically declared complete.

Yang Yuanhe has been waiting for the motion capture studio mentioned by Li Yuanhang, but now he finally hopes it, he can't wait to ask when it will be put into use.

Chen Ming thought for a while and said: "I have to debug and inspect the equipment this week. I have to be familiar with these two sets of equipment, because I have never used such high-end equipment before. I think at least it will be officially put into use next Monday. ."

Yang Yuanhe immediately said, "Good, let us use both sets of equipment next Monday."

Chen Ming looked at Li Yuanhang and asked for his opinion.

Li Yuanhang waved his hand: "Let's let Brother Yang use it first. After all, "Benghuai Xueyuan" has been waiting for so long, and "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" is not so short."

Chen Ming said: "Well, I will work overtime these days to debug all the equipment, and welcome Zhurong Studio's first business in the best condition."

I forgot to explain. Although Zhu Rong Studio belongs to Shinhwa Network, it is a relatively independent studio.

If other studios of Shinhwa Network want to use motion capture in Zhurong Studio, they need to pay 20% off the market price. If Shinhwa Network does not use motion capture, Chen Ming has the right to accept orders from outside.

All funds paid to Zhurong Studio will be used for equipment maintenance and salary bonuses for staff and contracted actors.

Apart from the priority right of the studios under the Shinhwa Network, Zhurong Studios is like a relatively independent wholly-owned subsidiary, which is also one of the conditions for Li Yuanhang to recruit Chen Ming.